Dentist-Oral/Maxillofacial Surgeon

Summary

This is a open and continuous announcement until September 30, 2024. Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available.

Duties

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.

Work Schedule: 0700-1630 Monday - Friday
Compressed/Flexible: Available.
Telework: Not Authorized.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for highly qualified applicants.

The Durham VA is currently looking to bring onboard an Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon. An Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon serves as a practicing dentist who performs a full range of professional dental procedures in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective, restorative, or preventive measures.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provides a full range of services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques for dentoalveolar surgery, complex dental extractions, treatment of orofacial infections, treatment of orofacial trauma, pre-prosthetic surgery, placement of dental implants, diagnostic procedures consistent with the practice of OMS, surgical treatment of oral and maxillofacial pathology, diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular dysfunction, surgical reconstruction of acquired or developmental oral-facial anomalies, treatment of cosmetic defects resulting from trauma, treatment of orthognathic deformities, grafting procedures including the harvesting of graft material consistent with the practice of OMS. Provide treatment utilizing simple and advanced dental implants.
• Performs appropriate evaluations for patients that may be medically compromised.
• Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions to units/programs in the Medical Center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
• Is appropriately licensed by the State Board of Dental Examiners licensed to provide outpatient intravenous sedation in conjunction with oral and maxillofacial treatment.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences, weekly Tumor Board, Moderate Sedation Committee and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Ensures that the practice of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is consistent with Joint Commission, CARF, VA policies and procedures, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations. Medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies.
• Provides oversite, direction, and education to dental staff and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and General Practice residents that rotate through the hospital and clinic.
• Participates in Oral and Maxillofacial 24 hour call on a rotating basis with other attending(s) for the hospital and clinic patients.

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